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Thesaurus posted:
Read the Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon. Fanon worked as a psychiatric during the war and treated Algerians who had been tortured by the French. The book is about how violence is necessary for a people to fight it's oppressors it also talks about how violence affects people and uses his patients as examples.
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barkingclam posted:There's also the Book of Contemplation, written by an Arab in the 12th century which touches on the Crusades from the other side. There's also The Crusades Through Arab Eyes.
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Is In the Shadow of the Sword good?PlushCow posted:The Amazon ebook deal of the day is Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown for $2.99, and it is moving and poignant and altogether excellent and well worth more than $3 so go buy it. The HBO movie is also worth seeing.
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Neurosis posted:Yeah apparently it was some really awkward poo poo Yeah: Finally in 1777, Emperor Joseph, Holy Roman Emperor and Marie Antoinette’s older brother, arrived for a six week visit designed in part to sort the couple out. He spoke to both his sister and brother in law. We know of the advice he gave a couple from a letter that Joseph wrote to his own younger brother. Louis it seemed, was able 'to have strong, well conditioned erections',(3), however was unable to carry out the sexual act. Joseph stated that ‘this is incomprehensible, because with all that, he sometimes has nightly emissions, but says plainly that what he does, he does from a sense of duty but never from pleasure.' The Emperor stated quite frankly that if he had a chance to solve the problem sooner Louis, “would have been whipped so that he ejaculated out of sheer rage like a donkey”.(2).
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Dapper_Swindler posted:whats a good book on vikings, like a history and such. the new assassins creed is gonna get announced soon and i always love reading about the time periods. Vikings at War which goes into the military strategies of the vikings.
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Jan 5, 2020 16:32
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:mythology fans; The fact that Frigg went around Middle Earth making every living and unliving thing swear that they wouldn't cause the death of her son, Baldr, seems to suggest that they were killable. Then you have Kvasir who was killed by a couple of dwarves.
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Just finished a book about Geirmund Heljarskinn (Geirmund With Black Skin) called the Black Viking. Not much is known about other than that he probably had an asian mother and that he became a successful business man. The book is about Geirmund but also about what we can possibly know about a person who lived a thousand years ago with very few written sources. The author shows that names, what we know about the culture and names of locations actually can be used when we have little else.
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